Hi, this will be my first season doing track. I'm a female high school runner who's ran cross country for 4 years.
I've been running around 40 mpw this winter. I try to run easy runs around 8:20-10:00/mi depending on how I'm feeling. Moderate is like 7:45-8:15, and tempo is 7:00-7:45, depends on distance. I've been feeling pretty good at this mileage, and I try to do a workout or tempo twice a week, and run the other 4/5 days easy. Welcome to any suggestions.
My PRs: (all run in the past year; half and 10k were run in January, actually 3 days apart)
Mile: 6:03
5k: 21:30 (I've run low 21s on a fast course), 6:55/mi
10K: 45:30, 7:20/mi
Half: 1:40:20, 7:40/mi
With my times and training, would the mile or two mile be the better event for me to try? If I can't try them both, I'm leaning towards the 2 mile. If I continue to really put in the training and get coaching, could a sub 12:30 2 mile be possible? Be honest. Neve done track before so no clue. I've been feeling really good lately, but hesitant to up the mileage... been lucky to not be injured this far.
Is a sub 12:30 two mile possible? (+ training advice)
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Any human can go sub 12:30. Keep training hard.
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Yea its possible and you probably aren't too far off. You shouldn't need more miles, 40 is plenty. I was able to run 1:25 half off of less than that at almost 40 years of age. As for the type of work you need, I will have to defer as I have never specifically trained for a short race like a 2 mile or even 5k. When I was in the army over 25 years ago, I was able to run 11:10 for two miles and we probably were doing less than 10 miles per week of running.
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you can get it. mileage is fine, you just need to get used to running 6:15s
